November 18, 2004

Baby Talk

I have heard many times from professional fussy-pants that it's wrong, wrong, to let small children mangle their own versions of words. (You know, because their lips and tongues might get stuck that way!) Needless to say, I think this is preposterous. Furthermore, it's quirks such as these that often later become part of a family's collection of inside jokes, a powerful source of bonding. Plus, awwwww, ain't they cute?

When I was a toddler, I used to call both bears and squirrels "qwullies." That word is still in use in my household, and indeed, my own kids are starting to use it.

A few new words invented by the Llama-ettes themselves include:

-"Pang-pangs" for pancakes
-"Byot-byot" for bunny rabbits
-"Pack-pack" for backpack

Also, my six year old still transposes "regular" into "regleer," something I find myself doing more and more often as well.

If you're worried about the long-term fallout of this kind of behavior, just remember: if they're still doing it in college, their roommates will cure them of it right quickly.

(*Gratuitous father of three advice: Play deep. Let them have the short pass. Just make sure none of them gets behind the coverage.)

Well, if their roomies don't cure 'em, their spouses will. My wife - and her sister - and my step-daughter - all said "sawl". As in, " I sawl Bob at the mall", which drove me CRAZY. Years of patient and kind correction led them to see the error of their ways.

My son had chronic ear infections as a youngster, to the point that it affected his speech development and hearing. My wife was the only person who could understand his language, and that only about 50%. The one word that stayed with us was "Booooosh", which meant pizza and/or toilet, depending on which room it was used.

Occasionally on the road, when we drive by a pizza parlor, one of us will say "Booooosh" and we both crack up.

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